“Ernie Rea discusses whether there is any place for God in a modern courtroom with • Joshua Rosenberg, legal commentator and presenter of Radio 4’s Law in Action; • family law barrister Jasvir Singh, Chairman of City Sikhs; and • Sarah Donaldson a Manchester based barrister and Quaker”

yesterday afternoon (monday 13th), 4.30-5.00pm, on bbc radio 4death rituals in the absence of a body (presented by ernie rea) (in the beyond belief series) with …
• dr miri freud-kandel, fellow in modern judaism at the oxford centre for hebrew and jewish studies
• professor douglas davies, director of the centre for death and life studies at the university of durham
• dr chetna kang, consultant psychiatrist and hindu priest (more…)

“Ernie Rea discusses religion’s obsession with numbers with • Marcus du Sautoy, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, • Alex Bellos, science writer and journalist and author of Can you solve my problems? and • Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, a Community Educator at the Movement for Reform Judaism.”

presenter ernie rea expresses unchallenged the bbc’s position that the creation of israel, and not the arabs’ wars against israel, was the cause of palestinians’ statelessness and occupation …

(0:12:00) … subsequent to that we had the rise of the Nazis in Germany, we had the Holocaust with 6 million Jews losing their lives, and then at the end of that there was a state of Israel declared, in 1948, with it has to be said pretty dire consequences for the Palestinians.

“Ernie Rea discusses the connection between hair and religious belief with • Dr Christopher Oldstone-Moore, author of “Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair”; • Dr Jasjit Singh, an expert in religious and cultural identity from the University of Leeds; and • Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts, a Reform Rabbi and expert on women and Judaism.”